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... sunshine. Had lunch at Colmar which was a lovely old town...we walked down all the cobblestone streets and kinda got lost but then found our way. Out hotel at Engleberg was high up in the mountains and we were surrounded by more mountains! We had an awesome room with a great view ...

... is. When we arrived, we discovered that we were staying half way up the mountain and tomorrow we are going to go the full way up to see the snow!! Michael went for a walk with Gavin and Michael and discovered some snow close by that was being preserved under a ...

... br> First day of skiing, it was super sunny and really warm, but it hadn't snowed in a while so the conditions were not that great - pretty icy and much less groomed and more rugged then skiing in the U.S. For a snowboarder, it was definitely tough. We took a few Gondolas up to the top and one that carried about 75 people packed in - pretty crazy experience, but the lines in Switzerland for the Gondola to go up were crazy - we waited quite a long time to get up, ...

... and then found a place for tobogganing. We made the decision not to do skiing on this day as we wanted to be able to take in as much of the Swiss Alps as we could without a chunk of it going into skiing. This was a good choice. However, it meant that when it came to going fast on the snow, tobogganing and sledding would have to do. We spent quite some time going down the tobogganing run. Kellie was much better at it than I was. My toboggan would be going sideways as ...